Numb. 101.
1537

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1880.

Land taken for a Portion of the Wellington-Napier
Railway.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation issued under the
authority of sections one hundred and twenty-
two, one hundred and twenty-three, and one hundred
and twenty-four of "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
the middle line of a portion of the railway from
Masterton to Papatu vid Woodville, being one of the
railways specified in "The Immigration and Public
Works Appropriation Act, 1878," was defined: And
whereas pursuant to the one hundred and twenty-fifth
section of "The Public Works Act, 1876," the Minister
for Public Works has caused to be made and, on the
tenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine, to be deposited in the office of the
Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wellington, in the
Provincial District of Wellington, such maps and plans
as were necessary to explain the said portion of the
aforesaid line of railway and the land through which
the same passes, and such maps and plans were
referred to in such Proclamation as aforesaid: And
whereas the railway from Wellington to Napier is
the same railway as that referred to in the Proclama-
tion hereinabove recited, and is one of the railways
specified in "The Public Works Act, 1879:" And
it is enacted by the last named Act that such of the
railways mentioned therein as are unfinished may be
completed under the provisions of "The Public
Works Act, 1876," "The Public Works Act 1876
Amendment Act, 1878," and "The Public Works
Act, 1879:" And whereas the land described in the
Schedule hereto is required to be taken for the said
portion of the railway from Wellington to Napier :

Now, therefore I, James Prendergast, Chief Justice
of the Colony of New Zealand, and Administrator of
the Government thereof, in exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred by the sixth section of
"The Public Works Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878,"
and of every power and authority in that behalf, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the land described
in the Schedule hereto is taken for the said portion
of the line of railway herein last above named.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre and 34 perches, more or less,
situate in the Masterton Small Farm Block, being
portion of Section No 61, commencing at about 4570
links westerly from north-east corner of Section No.
61. Bounded-Generally Easterly by a line, 212
links or thereabouts; generally Northerly by a line,
964 links or thereabouts; generally Westerly by a
line, 104 links; and generally Southerly by a line,
1102 links to point of commencement.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre 2 roods 30 perches, more or
less, situate in the Survey District of Masterton
Small Farm Block, being portion of Section No. 62,
commencing at about 4570 links westerly from north-
east corner of Section No. 61. Bounded-Generally
Easterly by a line, 1142 links or thereabouts; gene-
rally Northerly by a line, 270 links or thereabouts;
generally Westerly by a line, 1096 links; and gene-
rally Southerly by a line, 212 links to point of com-
mencement.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 2 acres and 3 perches, more or less,
situate in the Survey District of Masterton Small
Farm Block, being portion of Section No. 63, com-
mencing at about 3665 links westerly from north-
east corner of Section No. 62. Bounded-Generally
Easterly by a line, 1126 liuks or thereabouts; gene-
rally Northerly by a line, 320 links or thereabouts;
generally Westerly by a line, 1086 links; and gene-
rally Southerly by a line, 270 links to point of com-
mencement.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre 3 roods 3 perches, more or
less, situate in the Survey District of Masterton
Small Farm Block, being portion of Section No. 64,
commencing at about 2780 links westerly from